Released within months of each other, three new pieces of critically acclaimed work - one an Emmy nominated PBS documentary and the other two best selling Amazon books - are touching the lives of thousands and helping change the American culture as it pertains to end-of-life communication.

Duke's Dr. James Tulsky and the University of Washington's Dr. Anthony Back (far right in picture below) - together with the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Robert Arnold - have been teaching communication skills for years to oncologists in a program called VitalTalk.

Emmy® nominated filmmakers Michael Bernhagen and Terry Kaldhusdal are pleased to announce that Consider the Conversation 2: Stories about Cure, Relief, and Comfort - their new documentary about the importance of the patient/doctor relationship and patient/doctor communication when living with severe chronic disease - has won six awards in the Accolade Global Film Competition:

Starting Sunday, November 9th, Consider the Conversation co-producers Michael Bernhagen and Terry Kaldhusdal will appear, along with numerous other experts, in a five part series titled Death on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge".

For more information about the series, including where and when to tune in, please click here.